In 1978, Susan Sontag published Illness as Metaphor, a book composed of three long essays which were originally delivered in the distinguished James Lecture Series at the New York Institute […]
In Austria, the corona crisis was ended prematurely thanks to the government, the opposition, the virologists, the mathematicians and the economists – at least it would appear so. This happened […]
A society that does not accept death can hardly enjoy life. The Portuguese Nobel Prize Laureate Jose Saramago, author of The Intermittencies of Death, wondered what would happen if death […]
With the virus, which infiltrates the pulmonary interstices, without any warning or presentiment, we find ourselves caught up in the impact of a real without presence, certainly a bodily one. […]
“One day I couldn’t leave my home, the city, the country, the planet was infested by virus causing respiratory problems and obligated the governments to take measures. The citizens stayed […]
Corona For a few weeks now the world as we know it has changed – ever since an epidemic has breached the borders, from something far away, to something right […]
“Hopefully we can keep that desire alive”. So concludes a text published by Judith Butler a few days ago,[1] in the midst of what the North American philosopher rightly calls […]
“Here, the point of desire and the anxiety-point coincide” in the visual field, according to Lacan [1]. How does this apply to a world suddenly emptied of the semblables, where […]
What does the ultra-rapid extension of this pandemic reveal to us about the current state of the biopolitical management of bodies? And what does the treatment by governments of the […]
Conversation with Antonio Di Ciaccia[i] Bollorino: Let’s start from psychoanalysis as a clinical and institutional practice: cancelled sessions, Skype therapies, missed conferences: how does psychoanalysis change in times of […]